| JWeinCom said: It's a lot easier to balance a metagame with less Pokemon for one thing. And a lot of the Pokemon that are gone were a bit on the unbalanced side. Fewer potential strategies means less depth but more accessibility. The more potential threats that there are, the harder it is to make a team that can be adequately prepared for all of them. With a small number of Pokemon you can be reasonably prepared for whatever your opponent throws at you. The more Pokemon, the more potential strategies, and you're at a point where you just have to pick and choose which threats you're going to be ready for, and if the opponent sends something out that you didn't prepare for, no amount of smart play will help, and you just have to take the L. There's also the element that it's a more even playing field for new players since long time players already have a boatload of options to pick from. And there's the fact that legendaries had become so insane that they had to be moved to their own metagame, and maybe this time they could actually be folded back into the main meta. Of course, the same thing could also be accomplished with a national dex only battle mode. |
It's sad you're trying to spin less options as a positive by saying people are too incompetent to adapt to new strategies and that new players somehow don't have access to the same boatload of options, but I digress. This is just your made up excuse you know, Game Freak never said this was a reason for the snap, naturally as they clearly don't really care about balancing the metagame. Even if this was true, it's a terrible reason, ban list already exist to limit what Pokemon can be used without deleting them from all aspects of the game.
| padib said: I find this kind of ridiculous. What exactly do you know of Gamefreak's effort and budget for the game? It is not a 2D pokemon game, with a lot more effort required per pokemon. I don't think it's really logical for you to say that chrkeller is just paying for less, you honestly have no clue what would have costed Gamefreak more to dev. |
That you think this is a valid excuse is what's ridiculous, as if Game Freak isn't responsible for managing their time and budget.
If you don't think having less Pokemon is less then it's you who isn't logical and in denial, this is just basic math.
